CL 380 - Seeing From an Elevated Human Mind

CL 380 [6]

"Do you not know
that the human mind is capable of being elevated
above sensual appearances,
which are appearances
in the thoughts from the bodily senses,
and that when it is elevated,
it sees such things as have to do with life above,
and such things as have to do with nature below?

"Raise the sight of your genius yet a little higher,
and you will see
that to be affected and think are properties of life;
and that the capacity to be affected derives from love,
and to think, from wisdom,
and both of these from life --
for, as we said, love and wisdom are life.

"If you raise the faculty of your understanding
a little higher still,
you will see that no love or wisdom is possible
unless somewhere it has an origin,
and that its origin is love itself and wisdom itself,
thus life itself;
and these are God,
from whom comes nature."